Chapter XXXIII: The Sound of Wedding-Bells

It was a bright day at the seashore, and the beach was crowded.

Lord and Lady Quaintree were at Eastbourne, with the Honorable Gerald and “the two girls,” as Lois and Blanche were affectionately designated. Frank Amberley had come to spend his few weeks of holiday here.

Paul, by the advice of his colonel, had seen the Italian consul in London. The consul had looked grave, listened to his story, received the register, and said:

“The matter shall have every attention, and in all probability we shall communicate with you shortly respecting it.”

Some months, after all, elapsed before Captain Desfrayne received any communication, and then he learned the painful facts of the unhappy Lucia’s third marriage and the loss of her reason.

He made every effort to find her on settling the affair at the Italian consulate--but vainly, and was obliged to relinquish the attempt. Then he repaired to Eastbourne. The agitation of these last few weeks had told terribly on his health, although he was rejoicing with unspeakable joy over his recovered liberty.

He knew that the Quaintrees had chosen the place; indeed, that had been the attraction for him. And Frank Amberley had seen him during his visit to London, and mentioned his intention of coming.

Captain Desfrayne set off to pay a visit of ceremony to Lady Quaintree.

On the way, however, the scene was so bright, so alluring, so unlike what he had been condemned to for some time, that he paused to contemplate it.

How many minutes he lingered he did not know, but he was aroused from a bitter-sweet day-dream by hearing some one address him by name. It was Frank Amberley.

The young lawyer had left a party seated on the beach to come and intercept Paul; but returned to them, followed by his treasure-trove.

Paul’s heart beat violently, for he perceived Lois Turquand, dazzlingly beautiful as a sea-nymph. He knew not what he said, either to the ladies or to Lord Quaintree and his son, and sat down mechanically when Blanche moved a little to make room for him on the beach.

The remarks, the replies, the notes, and queries, were all commonplace enough, so Paul could keep up a show of attention without betraying his abstracted state of mind.

“Charming, indeed,” he had just returned, to an observation of Lady Quaintree’s--Lois was absolutely silent.

Frank Amberley, too loyal to gain any advantage by treachery, would have explained to Lois that the sad story he told her had ended less tragically than it threatened to do; but he had not yet found any opportunity of speaking to Miss Turquand undisturbed. He had, in fact, preceded Captain Desfrayne by only a couple of days.

Gerald had continued to devote himself to Blanche, in spite of his mother’s evidences of displeasure. Lady Quaintree had begun to despair of being able to secure Lois as a daughter-in-law. Blanche was amused by the little flirtation into which Gerald had drawn her, but she cared not a straw for him; while the grave, handsome face, the soft, musical accents of Frank Amberley began to dangerously haunt her dreams.

The little party rose, and Paul Desfrayne accompanied them a short way. For part of the time he found himself lingering behind the others, with Miss Turquand.

An almost irrepressible desire to confide in her rose in his heart; but he crushed the wish, for this was neither the time nor place. A few impetuous words, however, gave her an inkling of the change that had come to him, and she glanced up at him. A look of passionate admiration--of dawning love--made her blush deeply and avert her head, and hurry a few steps to rejoin the others. But when they were about to part, she gave him her hand with a little happy smile of confidence.

The tranquil, sunlit days glided by, and lengthened into weeks.

Frank Amberley, fully conscious of the risk to his peace involved by lingering, could not tear himself away. But by degrees he discovered the charm, the beauty, the sweetness of the innocent Blanche’s character, so was in a fair way of being consoled. Happily for himself, he was not one of those who love but once and forever.

Paul Desfrayne did not tell his painful story all at once, and Lois spared him much of the distress involved in the recital, but by degrees she became aware of all the sad details; and she gave him all the pity and sympathy of her fresh young heart.

The Honorable Gerald found some one more appreciative and more warmly disposed in his favor than the pretty Blanche, and transferred all the devotion he had to offer to the more accessible divinity.

Paul was left pretty much to his own devices in winning the prize held out to him so strangely.

It was not a difficult task. Never did wooing prosper more hopefully.

The last few days of this brief, delicious holiday were fast winging to the dim past.

Nay, the last evening had come--a soft, cloudless, moonlit night, when the very air seemed to breathe of love.

Gerald was away; Blanche and Lady Quaintree were taking a farewell turn on the sands; Lord Quaintree was asleep. Lois had stayed at home, for she had a tolerably clear idea that Paul would come, and he had looked a hope that he might find her alone.

The young girl was sitting in the long, flower-wreathed balcony, the mild, silvery moonbeams falling over her like a radiance, making her look some lovely ethereal spirit.

Paul did come, as she anticipated. The dim, mysterious light did not betray the glowing blush upon her beautiful face, the sparkling, happy light in her eyes. She did not hear his step upon the carpet, nor see him, but some electrical sympathy told her he was approaching.

With a soft, welcoming, trustful smile, she held out her hand, which he took, but omitted to release. Then he sat down close to her, yet slightly behind her chair, as if even now he scarcely dared to believe that the promise of the future could be true.

A murmuring conversation, too low for ears less acute than those attuned by love to hear, and then Paul gently folded Lois in his arms. Then, after a pause, he slipped a diamond ring of betrothal upon her finger, and she was his promised wife.

Vere Gardiner’s dying wishes had come to a happy fruition, after all. And the story ended like the delightful old fairy-tales, with a joyous clash of merry wedding-bells.

But this time there was no rash marrying in haste. Almost a year elapsed, by the influence and desire of Lady Quaintree, before the pretty bridal-party met in Flore Hall, about six weeks before the marriage of Frank Amberley and Blanche Dormer.

The echoes of the harmonious wedding-bells sound as yet through the wedded life of Paul and his true love. Adieu, care; farewell, sorrow, for the inevitable cares and sorrows are shared, so fall lightly.

Sometimes a faint cloud comes over Paul’s face as he thinks of the one act of folly which had so nearly ruined his life; but he tries to forget the forbidding past, and to sun himself in the love and bright smiles of his wife and two little angel-children, baby Lois, and her elder brother, Paul.

THE END.

“Her Heart’s Delight,” by Bertha M. Clay is the title of No. 301 of the NEW BERTHA CLAY LIBRARY. It is a story that the readers of this series will not find lacking in the skill that Bertha Clay displays in telling a vivid romance.

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1029--Only a Working Girl By Geraldine Fleming
1030--The Unbidden Guest By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1031--The Man and His Millions By Ida Reade Allen
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1033--Was He Worth It? By Geraldine Fleming
1034--Her Two Suitors By Wenona Gilman
1035--Edith Percival By May Agnes Fleming
1036--Caught in the Snare By May Agnes Fleming
1037--A Love Concealed By Emma Garrison Jones
1038--The Price of Happiness By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1039--The Lucky Man By Geraldine Fleming
1040--A Forced Promise By Ida Reade Allen
1041--The Crime of Love By Barbara Howard
1042--The Bride’s Opals By Emma Garrison Jones
1043--Love That Was Cursed By Geraldine Fleming
1044--Thorns of Regret By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1045--Love Will Find the Way By Wenona Gilman
1046--Bitterly Atoned By Mrs. E. Burke Collins
1047--Told in the Twilight By Ida Reade Allen
1048--A Little Barbarian By Charlotte Kingsley
1049--Love’s Golden Spell By Geraldine Fleming
1050--Married in Error By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1051--If It Were True By Wenona Gilman
1052--Vivian’s Love Story By Mrs. E. Burke Collins
1053--From Tears to Smiles By Ida Reade Allen
1054--When Love Dawns By Adelaide Stirling
1055--Love’s Earnest Prayer By Geraldine Fleming
1056--The Strength of Love By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1057--A Lost Love By Wenona Gilman
1058--The Stronger Passion By Lillian R. Drayton
1059--What Love Can Cost By Evelyn Malcolm
1060--At Another’s Bidding By Ida Reade Allen
1061--Above All Things By Adelaide Stirling
1062--The Curse of Beauty By Geraldine Fleming
1063--Her Sister’s Secret By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1064--Married in Haste By Wenona Gilman
1065--Fair Maid Marian By Emma Garrison Jones
1066--No Man’s Wife By Ida Reade Allen
1067--A Sacrifice to Love By Adelaide Stirling
1068--Her Fatal Gift By Geraldine Fleming
1069--Her Life’s Burden By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1070--Evelyn, the Actress By Wenona Gilman
1071--Married for Money By Lucy Randall Comfort
1072--A Lost Sweetheart By Ida Reade Allen
1073--A Golden Sorrow By Charlotte M. Stanley
1074--Her Heart’s Challenge By Barbara Howard
1075--His Willing Slave By Lillian R. Drayton
1076--A Freak of Fate By Emma Garrison Jones
1077--Her Punishment By Laura Jean Libbey
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1079--No Time for Penitence By Wenona Gilman
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1081--A Wilful Girl By Lucy Randall Comfort
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1090--In Love’s Springtime By Laura Jean Libbey
1091--Love at the Loom By Geraldine Fleming
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1094--Hearts and Dollars By Ida Reade Allan
1095--A Wife’s Triumph By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1096--A Bachelor Girl By Lucy May Russell
1097--Love and Spite By Adelaide Stirling
1098--Leola’s Heart By Charlotte M. Stanley
1099--The Power of Love By Geraldine Fleming
1100--An Angel of Evil By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1101--True to His Bride By Emma Garrison Jones
1102--The Lady of Beaufort Park By Wenona Gilman
1103--A Daughter of Darkness By Ida Reade Allen
1104--My Pretty Maid By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1105--Master of Her Fate By Geraldine Fleming
1106--A Shadowed Happiness By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1107--John Elliott’s Flirtation By Lucy May Russell
1108--A Forgotten Love By Adelaide Stirling
1109--Sylvia, The Forsaken By Charlotte M. Stanley
1110--Her Dearest Love By Geraldine Fleming
1111--Love’s Greatest Gift By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1112--Mischievous Maid Faynie By Laura Jean Libbey
1113--In Love’s Name By Emma Garrison Jones
1114--Love’s Clouded Dawn By Wenona Gilman
1115--A Blue Grass Heroine By Ida Reade Allen
1116--Only a Kiss By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1117--Virgie Talcott’s Mission By Lucy May Russell
1118--Her Evil Genius By Adelaide Stirling
1119--In Love’s Paradise By Charlotte M. Stanley
1120--Sold for Gold By Geraldine Fleming
1121--Andrew Leicester’s Love By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1122--Taken by Storm By Emma Garrison Jones
1123--The Mills of the Gods By Wenona Gilman
1124--The Breath of Slander By Ida Reade Allen
1125--Loyal Unto Death By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1126--A Spurned Proposal By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1127--Daredevil Betty By Evelyn Malcolm
1128--Her Life’s Dark Cloud By Lillian R. Drayton
1129--True Love Endures By Ida Reade Allen
1130--The Battle of Hearts By Geraldine Fleming
1131--Better Than Riches By Wenona Gilman
1132--Tempted By Love By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1133--Between Good and Evil By Charlotte M. Stanley
1134--A Southern Princess By Emma Garrison Jones
1135--The Thorns of Love By Evelyn Malcolm
1136--A Married Flirt By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1137--Her Priceless Love By Geraldine Fleming
1138--My Own Sweetheart By Wenona Gilman
1139--Love’s Harvest By Adelaide Fox Robinson
1140--His Two Loves By Ida Reade Allen
1141--The Love He Sought By Lillian R. Drayton
1142--A Fateful Promise By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1143--Love Surely Triumphs By Charlotte May Kingsley
1144--The Haunting Past By Evelyn Malcolm
1145--Sorely Tried By Emma Garrison Jones
1146--Falsely Accused By Geraldine Fleming
1147--Love Given in Vain By Adelaide Fox Robinson
1148--No One to Help Her By Ida Reade Allen
1149--Her Golden Secret By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1150--Saved From Herself By Adelaide Stirling
1151--The Gypsy’s Warning By Emma Garrison Jones
1152--Caught in Love’s Net By Ida Reade Allen
1153--The Pride of My Heart By Laura Jean Libbey
1154--A Vagabond Heiress By Charlotte May Kingsley
1155--That Terrible Tomboy By Geraldine Fleming
1156--The Man She Hated By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1157--Her Fateful Choice By Charlotte M. Stanley
1158--A Hero For Love’s Sake By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1159--A Penniless Princess By Emma Garrison Jones
1160--Love’s Rugged Pathway By Ida Reade Allen
1161--Had She Loved Him Less By Laura Jean Libbey
1162--The Serpent and the Dove By Charlotte May Kingsley
1163--What Love Made Her By Geraldine Fleming
1164--Love Conquers Pride By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1165--His Unbounded Faith By Charlotte M. Stanley
1166--A Heart’s Triumph By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1167--Stronger than Fate By Emma Garrison Jones
1168--A Virginia Goddess By Ida Reade Allen
1169--Love’s Young Dream By Laura Jean Libbey
1170--When Fate Decrees By Adelaide Fox Robinson
1171--For a Flirt’s Love By Geraldine Fleming
1172--All For Love By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1173--Could He Have Known By Charlotte May Stanley
1174--The Girl He Loved By Adelaide Stirling
1175--They Met By Chance By Ida Reade Allen
1176--The Lovely Constance By Laura Jean Libbey
1177--The Love That Prevailed By Mrs. E. Burke Collins
1178--Trixie’s Honor By Geraldine Fleming
1179--Driven from Home By Wenona Gilman
1180--The Arm of the Law By Evelyn Malcolm
1181--A Will Of Her Own By Ida Reade Allen
1182--Pity--Not Love By Laura Jean Libbey
1183--Brave Barbara By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1184--Lady Gay’s Martyrdom By Charlotte May Kingsley
1185--Barriers of Stone By Wenona Gilman
1186--A Useless Sacrifice By Emma Garrison Jones
1187--When We Two Parted By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1188--Far Above Price By Evelvn Malcolm
1189--In Love’s Shadows By Ida Reade Allen
1190--The Veiled Bride By Laura Jean Libbey
1191--The Love Knot By Charlotte May Kingsley
1192--She Scoffed at Love By Mrs. E. Burke Collins
1193--Life’s Richest Jewel By Adelaide Fox Robinson
1194--A Barrier Between Them By Evelyn Malcolm
1195--Too Quickly Judged By Ida Reade Allen
1196--Lotta, the Cloak Model By Laura Jean Libbey
1197--Loved at Last By Geraldine Fleming
1198--They Looked and Loved By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1199--The Wiles of a Siren By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1200--Tricked Into Marriage By Evelyn Malcolm
1201--Her Twentieth Guest By Emma Garrison Jones
1202--From Dreams to Waking By Charlotte M. Kingsley
1203--Sweet Kitty Clover By Laura Jean Libbey
1204--Selina’s Love Story By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1205--The Cost of Pride By Lillian R. Drayton
1206--Love Is a Mystery By Adelaide Fox Robinson
1207--When Love Speaks By Evelyn Malcolm
1208--A Siren’s Heart By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1209--Her Share of Sorrow By Wenona Gilman
1210--The Other Girl’s Lover By Lillian R. Drayton
1211--The Fatal Kiss By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
1212--A Reckless Promise By Emma Garrison Jones
1213--Without Name or Wealth By Ida Reade Allen
1214--At Her Father’s Bidding By Geraldine Fleming
1215--The Heart of Hetta By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1216--A Dreadful Legacy By Geraldine Fleming

In order that there may be no confusion, we desire to say that the books listed below will be issued during the respective months in New York City and vicinity. They may not reach the readers at a distance promptly, on account of delays in transportation.

To be published in July, 1926.

1217--For Jack’s Sake By Emma Garrison Jones
1218--One Man’s Evil By Effie Adelaide Rowlands

To be published In August, 1926.

1219--Through the Shadows By Adelaide Fox Robinson
1220--The Stolen Bride By Evelyn Malcolm

To be published in September, 1926.

1221--When the Heart Hungers By Charlotte M. Stanley
1222--The Love that Would Not Die By Ida Reade Allen

To be published in October, 1926.

1223--A King and a Coward By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1224--A Queen of Song By Geraldine Fleming

To be published in November, 1926.

1225--Shall We Forgive Her? By Charlotte May Kingsley
1226--Face to Face with Love By Lillian R. Drayton
1227--Long Since Forgiven By Mrs. E. Burke Collins

To be published In December, 1926.

1228--As Light as Air By Charlotte M. Stanley
1229--When Man Proposes By Emma Garrison Jones

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He has looked into the question of the morality of the paper-covered book, for instance, and feels that he is perfectly safe in handing one of our novels to any one, because he has our assurance that nothing except clean, wholesome literature finds its way into our lines.

Therefore, the STREET & SMITH NOVEL dealer is a careful and wise tradesman, and it is fair to assume selects the other articles he has for sale with the same degree of intelligence as he does his paper-covered books.

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Transcriber’s Notes:

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.

Table of contents has been added and placed into the public domain by the transcriber.

Due to a typographical error, an incorrect line of text (duplicated from an earlier page) was printed on page 36 of the book used as the basis for this edition. This has been replaced here with the correct phrase: “never left him. What would she say when she learnt” which was sourced from an overseas serialization of the work under the title _Married in Haste_, with the correct text located in the Wednesday, April 5, 1899 issue of _The Maryborough Chronicle_ newspaper.